Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish was revealed during Xbox Partner Preview as a new first-person action RPG set in White Wolf’s World of Darkness universe.
The game is slated for release in Summer 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC.
It’s worth noting that this is not a revival of the early-2000s Hunter: The Reckoning action games. Deathwish is a new adaptation of the tabletop RPG, built around contemporary monster hunters operating in the same setting as Vampire: The Masquerade and other World of Darkness properties.
Teyon is taking it in a different direction from the older console titles and treating it as a full RPG with branching quests, companion systems, and multiple ways to solve problems.
The core setup places the player in a modern-day New York that initially looks ordinary, then slowly opens into a hidden, monster- and vampire-filled world running beneath it. In the game, you discover the truth, hit a point of no return, and go from prey to predator.
Deathwish is a semi-open-world game with a main questline, side quests, romance options, companion bonding, and branching choices. Character creation is fully custom, as the players will be able to build their hunter from scratch, choose male or female, customize appearance, and assign attributes and skills. The underlying system pulls heavily from the original tabletop game, including six attributes, 18 skills, and a classic system modeled on advantages and flaws.
Teyon is building the game around three broad playstyles: force, stealth, and dialogue. That applies both to combat and to quest design, as you can fight your way through problems with melee, shooting, and brawling, sneak around them, or talk your way through them if your build allows for it.
Teyon’s recent track record includes successful Terminator and RoboCop games, and the studio says that they’re building on what they learned from them while moving onto something more ambitious in scope and expectations. Maybe Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish will be the ultimate World of Darkness RPG experience that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 failed to provide. Let’s just hope that all the financial troubles of the publisher Nacon, won’t have any negative effect on the game.
